TAR + gzip: conversion steps
- Upload your TAR + gzip file to start.
- Convert TAR + gzip to bzip2.
- Download the TAR + gzip file.
About TAR + gzip files
a TAR archive compressed with gzip
TAR + gzip (.tar.gz or .tgz) is a TAR archive compressed with gzip, the most common archive format on Linux.
Source code releases, Linux software packages and server backups.
TAR + gzip: what conversion changes
Converting TAR + gzip repacks losslessly.
TAR + gzip: settings to change
Before you convert TAR + gzip files, you can adjust: Compression level, Split size, Password, and Root folder.
Limits of the TAR + gzip format
The whole archive is compressed as one stream, so reading a single file means decompressing everything before it.
Common questions about TAR + gzip
Why does extracting my .tar.gz give me a .tar file instead of my folder? The gzip layer holds the whole TAR as one compressed block, so unpacking happens in two passes — first decompress, then untar.
Why convert archives to TAR.GZ? It is the software-delivery standard on Linux: one command unpacks it on every Unix-like system.