how to manage your local AI models in Ollama — update, remove, and stop them eating your disk

Local models pile up fast and each one is gigabytes. Here's the handful of Ollama commands to list, update, remove, and inspect your models — and… Aliteq Lena Fischer · AI & Local Compute Editor

ollama list — see all your downloaded models and their sizes.

The essential commands

ollama pull <model— download a model, or update it to the latest version (run it again).

The essential commands

ollama rm <model— delete a model you no longer use, freeing gigabytes of disk.

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ollama ps — see which models are currently loaded in memory (and unload by stopping them).

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ollama show <model— inspect a model's details (parameters, quantization, template).

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Models live in ~/.ollama — that's the folder eating your disk; ollama rm is how you reclaim it.

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