Syncing from an external hardrive?

I want to get an 80G Ipod Classic, but my laptop's hardrive is only 60G. I was wondering, if I got an external hardrive, put all my music and movies on that, could I still sync it all without having to put it on my laptop's hardrive?

I have an external hard drive and my music files are already on it, leaving my itunes library empty. I haven't used it in a while, but I used to have it set up where Itunes pulled the music from the external HD and was available in the library. Now I am unable to have that happen. Again, my files are already moved and I would like itunes to link them together in my library, if possible. I have version 7.2 Itunes. Is this no longer an option? I have looked over other posts and followed the steps to move the location of the folder and then consolidate and that does nothing for me.

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