Using the Hard drive space

I want to buy a classic iPod either 80 or 160gb, but my question is my setup. I have a laptop with only a 60gb hard drive with an external 500gb hard drive. Will I be able to use my external drive to house my itunes files so I can use all 160gb?

Of course there is. Rather than another long post, let me just point you to another thread where I talked about this, specifically for someone with a laptop that would use the External drive library when at home and then could switch to a much smaller library on the laptop when out and about.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5274667
or here...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5284096&#5284096
Patrick

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