Can the raw model be removed after it was compressed ?

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Hey,

new to squish and still new (my success rate so far is... low with a M1 MBP 16GB) in the local llm area as well,

I tried loading my first model (Qwen3-8B) and soon after I got the "disk storage low" warning 😬 , since its the raw + compressed

What my question is, after compressing, can the raw / previous model be deleted ? or is it still needed after