# Supported formats

Format | Compressing | Decompressing | Filename Extensions
--- | --- | --- | ---
7z | X | X | 7z
XZ | X | X | xz
ZIP | X | X | zip
GZIP | X | X | gz gzip tgz
BZIP2 | X | X | bz2 bzip2 tbz2 tbz
TAR | X | X | tar
WIM | X | X | wim swm
LZMA |  | X | lzma
RAR |  | X | rar
CAB |  | X | cab
ARJ |  | X | arj
Z |  | X | z taz
CPIO |  | X | cpio
RPM |  | X | rpm
DEB |  | X | deb
LZH |  | X | lzh lha
SPLIT |  | X | 001 002 ...
CHM |  | X | chm chw hxs
ISO |  | X | iso
UDF |  | X | iso
COMPOUND |  | X | msi doc xls ppt
DMG |  | X | dmg
XAR |  | X | xar
HFS |  | X | hfs
NSIS |  | X | exe
NTFS |  | X | ntfs
FAT |  | X | fat
VHD |  | X | vhd
MBR |  | X | mbr
SquashFS |  | X | squashfs
CramFS |  | X | cramfs

## ZIP

7-Zip creates ZIP compatible archives. 7-Zip supports the following ZIP compression methods:

- 0 - Store
- 8 - Deflate
- 9 - Deflate64
- 12 - BZip2
- 14 - LZMA
- 98 - PPMd
- 1 - Shrink (decompression only)
- 6 - Implode (decompression only)

Files compressed with other ZIP compression methods can't be extracted by the current version of the 7-Zip. But these supported methods are the most popular today, and therefore 7-Zip can decompress most ZIP archives. To extract files compressed with non-supported methods you must use some other ZIP utility.

7-Zip supports the Zip64 extension of ZIP format.

The current version of 7-Zip doesn't support Zip multivolume archives.

## LZH

7-Zip supports LZH archives only for listing, browsing and decompressing. 7-Zip supports -lh0-, -lh4-, -lh5-, -lh6- and -lh7- methods.