7-Zip
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- This article is about the software. For the 7-Zip file format, see 7z.
7-Zip is an open source file archiving application. It can decode many compression and archiving formats. It has a native compressed archive format named 7z.
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Format cross-reference
7-Zip doesn't seem to provide good information about what formats it supports, so this list may not be completely accurate.
The "RW" column indicates read support (R), or read/write support (RW).
| Format | RW | Refer to |
|---|---|---|
| 7z | RW | 7z |
| APFS | R | Apple File System |
| APM | R | Apple Partition Map |
| AR | R | AR |
| ARJ | R | ARJ |
| BZIP2 | RW | bzip2 |
| CAB | R | Cabinet |
| CHM | R | CHM |
| Compound | R | Microsoft Compound File |
| CPIO | R | cpio |
| CramFS | R | Cramfs |
| DEB | R | deb |
| DMG | R | Apple Disk Image |
| EXT | R | ext2, ext3, ext4 |
| FAT | R | FAT12, FAT32, IMA |
| FLV | R | FLV |
| GPT | R | GUID Partition Table |
| GZIP | RW | gzip |
| HFS | R | HFS |
| IHEX | R | |
| ISO | R | ISO image, ISO 9660 |
| LZH | R | LHA |
| LZMA | R | LZMA_Alone |
| Mach-O | R | Mach-O |
| MBR | R | Master Boot Record |
| MSI | R | Windows Installer |
| MSLZ | R | MS-DOS installation compression |
| NSIS | R | NSIS |
| NTFS | R | NTFS |
| PE | R | PE |
| QCOW2 | R | qcow |
| RAR | R | RAR |
| RPM | R | RPM |
| SquashFS | R | Squashfs |
| SWF | R | SWF |
| TAR | RW | Tape Archive |
| UDF | R | ISO image, Universal Disk Format |
| UEFI | R | Firmware File System |
| VDI | R | VDI |
| VHD | R | VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) |
| VHDX | R | VHDX |
| VMDK | R | VMDK |
| WIM | RW | Windows Imaging Format |
| XAR | R | Xar (Extensible Archive) |
| XZ | RW | XZ |
| Z | R | compress |
| ZIP | RW | ZIP, Zipx |
