How does iPod Mini store songs and playlists?

Hi,
I am a new user of iPod Mini.
I have some music in my music library in iTunes and I have created a few playlists. Some songs are in multiple playlists. When I copy over these playlists, will these music files get copied over twice or only once?
I am worried that this will eat up space on my iPod and hence I am wondering whether to remove all dups in my playlists.
Can anyone please advise? I would expect that iPod dumps all song files at one place and the playlist is just a pointer to these various files. Can someone confirm if this is true?
Thanks,
SS

Welcome to the Apple Discussions, Suryanarayana!
Can someone confirm if this is true?
Confirmed.
Have a look at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/4.9/en/513.html
Although the article is about playlists in iTunes, it's applicable when they're transferred to the iPod.

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