How to change where OLLAMA models are saved on linux

mike_plumbs

As far as I understood from https://klu.ai/glossary/ollama , when we download a model through OLLAMA, Ollama models are stored in the ~/.ollama/models directory. Is there a way to change this default directory, and make OLLAMA read from another directory like ~/projects/foo/modelX/ ? Or can we make the OLLAMA download the model to this directory in the first place? Thanks!

Originally asked by alift on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

export OLLAMA_MODELS="/path/to/models" you need to set this environment variable

Full answer by Daniel Phingston: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/79444854 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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