diff --git a/pages/common/tar.md b/pages/common/tar.md
index aa5c47f9d1..927d97d3f2 100644
--- a/pages/common/tar.md
+++ b/pages/common/tar.md
@@ -18,3 +18,7 @@
 - extract a gzipped archive in the current directory
 
 `tar xzf {{source.tar.gz}}`
+
+- extract a bzipped archive in the current directory
+
+`tar xjf {{source.tar.bz2}}`