How to compress TAR.XZ
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Add your TAR.XZ files
Drag and drop TAR.XZ files onto the compressor, paste them, or click to browse. You can add several at once.
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Keep the default
TAR.XZ 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.XZ, or everything at once as a ZIP.
What compression does to TAR.XZ
Repacks at maximum xz 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.
Why there are no target sizes
Lossless compression never throws anything away, so how small a TAR.XZ 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.XZ has no target-size pages.
TAR.XZ · XZ-compressed Tar Archive
TAR.XZ is a TAR bundle compressed with LZMA2, giving some of the smallest archive sizes.
- Type
- Archive
- Extension
- .txz .tar.xz .xz
- MIME
- application/x-xz
- Best for
- Linux kernels and package distribution
Compressing TAR.XZ: frequently asked questions
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