How to compress TAR.BZ2
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Add your TAR.BZ2 files
Drag and drop TAR.BZ2 files onto the compressor, paste them, or click to browse. You can add several at once.
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Keep the default
TAR.BZ2 compression is lossless, so there's nothing to tune: every file comes back with identical contents.
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Compress
Click Compress. Files are processed in an isolated cloud sandbox and are usually ready in seconds.
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Download
Download each smaller TAR.BZ2, or everything at once as a ZIP.
What compression does to TAR.BZ2
Repacks at maximum bzip2 compression; the contents are byte-identical.
It's lossless, so there are no quality levels to choose between: every file comes back with identical contents, just packed more tightly.
Need it much smaller? xz usually beats bzip2 on both size and decompression speed. Convert TAR.BZ2 to TAR.XZ
Why there are no target sizes
Lossless compression never throws anything away, so how small a TAR.BZ2 can get depends entirely on what's in it. There's no quality dial to turn until the file hits 1 MB or 100 KB, which is why TAR.BZ2 has no target-size pages.
If you need a specific size, convert to a lossy format first, for example TAR.BZ2 to TAR.XZ.
TAR.BZ2 · Bzipped Tar Archive
TAR.BZ2 is a TAR bundle compressed with bzip2 for better compression than gzip.
- Type
- Archive
- Extension
- .tbz2 .tar.bz2 .tbz
- MIME
- application/x-bzip2
- Best for
- Linux software distribution
Compressing TAR.BZ2: frequently asked questions
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