What is the difference between .tar.lz and .tbz2?
- Extension
- .tar.lz
- .tbz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Lzip
- Bzip2
- Description
- "Tarball" (.TAR file) compressed with Lzip, a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain) algorithm, and therefore uses the compound file extension ".tar.lz;" often used for distributing linux software packages.
- File archive compressed with both .TAR and .BZ2 compression; often found on Unix systems; must first be decompressed (using Bzip 2 decompression), then the files must be extracted from the tar archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzip-compressed-tar
- application/x-bzip2
- Wikipedia
- .tar.lz on Wikipedia
- .tbz2 on Wikipedia