Home and personal partition in different places

If there is something that i hate is to have the .config files with my personal files in home.
Is there a way to mount a partition with the home and separated another partition with my files? I readed it in the wiki, but i don't know how to do it.

What do you have in /home then? You can have separate /docs , /data etc.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dotfiles
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libetc (see the note)

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[SOLVED] Moving boot, home and var partition post-install

I've installed my whole Arch on a single 10GB partition because of low disk space. But now that I've gained a lot of disk space, I want to move /boot, /home and /var to separate partitions.
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I'm guessing these two fie systems aren't mounted and the computer is seeing them as separate volumes?
So I guess I made a mistake during the install. This kind of explains a few things because when updating my kernel GRUB wasn't being updated as if the /boot partition wasn't mounted. I had to completely reinstall GRUB to have it point to the right kernel.
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/dev/sda5 -- /home
I used UUIDs if that makes any difference.
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UUID=00d4f1cd-cc6c-4dd3-B4c7-67da333205ea none swap defaults 0 0
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I did try reinstalling lightDM and xfce4 and xfce4-goodies. Not xorg though. I'll try reinstallign it and see what that does.
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I have just attempted to convert devfs to udev on my dual AMD Opteron with two SCSI drives running fully up-to-date Arch Linux. The result of following the standard udev procedure (which has worked on three other IDE machines without a hitch) was that of the four mountable SCSI disk partititions, only swap and / were mounted properly
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╔═[16:10]═[inxs @ arch]
╚═══===═══[~]>> df
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/dev/sda3 ext3 7.0G 1.7G 5.0G 25% /
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none tmpfs 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda4 ext4 16G 850M 14G 6% /home
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/dev/sda1 ext2 61M 12M 47M 20% /boot
╔═[21:16]═[inxs @ arch]
╚═══===═══[~]>> fdisk
Disk /dev/sda: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3648 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000080
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/dev/sda1 1 8 64228+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 9 726 5767335 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 727 1640 7341705 83 Linux
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╚═══===═══[~]>>
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