What to delete on internal HD if using external HD for storage

Need to free up mac mini 2010 HD space of 200 GB of music. Currently have an EHD as a backup and may add another for backup. What gets deleted on the internal HD if I have my itunes backed up to the two EHDs. I deleted somethiong on my emac years ago and had to rebuilt my itunes collection , do no t what to mess it up again. Also, if I partition one EHD that is a clone of the mac min/itunesi can the other EHD be just an itunes backup?

What gets deleted on the internal HD if I have my itunes backed up to the two EHDs
Nothing as those are backups on the external drives.
Quit iTunes.
Copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder from your internal to the external (not a backup).
Hold Option and launch iTunes.
Select Choose library and select the /iTunes/ folder you copied to the external.
Then you can delete /Music/iTunes/ folder from your internal.

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