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BZ2 File (What It Is and How to Open It)

BZ2 File (What It Is and How to Open It)

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This article explains what a BZ2 file is and how to open it on your computer or convert it to another format, such as GZ, ISO, ZIP, etc.

A file with the BZ2 file extension is a BZIP2 compressed file. They are normally only used on Unix-based systems for software distribution.

BZ2 is often the compression used for popular file containers that do not support compression (such as TAR files), so they might be named something like data.tar.bz2. For example, a file containing a compressed PNG image might be named something like image.png.bz2.

BZ2 files can be opened with 7-Zip and other compression/decompression programs. Of them, PeaZip is a good choice because it fully supports the format. This means that it can open the file and compress a file using the BZIP2 compression method to create a BZ2 file.