diff --git a/repos/ports/recipes/src/e2fsprogs-minimal/content.mk b/repos/ports/recipes/src/e2fsprogs-minimal/content.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..18dfb956b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/ports/recipes/src/e2fsprogs-minimal/content.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# keep 'e2fsprogs/target.inc' but not 'e2fsprogs/target.mk'
+E2FSPROGS_SRC := src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs/target.inc
+
+include $(REP_DIR)/recipes/src/e2fsprogs/content.mk
+
+content: src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs-minimal
+
+src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs-minimal:
+	$(mirror_from_rep_dir)
diff --git a/repos/ports/recipes/src/e2fsprogs-minimal/hash b/repos/ports/recipes/src/e2fsprogs-minimal/hash
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..59ce14114
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/ports/recipes/src/e2fsprogs-minimal/hash
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+2018-02-14 de4fcd36004199209df12ae694fe9173c63ad38b
diff --git a/repos/ports/recipes/src/e2fsprogs-minimal/used_apis b/repos/ports/recipes/src/e2fsprogs-minimal/used_apis
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..737e3c26a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/ports/recipes/src/e2fsprogs-minimal/used_apis
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+libc
+noux
+posix
diff --git a/repos/ports/recipes/src/e2fsprogs/content.mk b/repos/ports/recipes/src/e2fsprogs/content.mk
index 9fc9b73db..4ea98a318 100644
--- a/repos/ports/recipes/src/e2fsprogs/content.mk
+++ b/repos/ports/recipes/src/e2fsprogs/content.mk
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+E2FSPROGS_SRC ?= $(addprefix src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs/,target.inc target.mk)
+
 content: src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs LICENSE
 
 PORT_DIR := $(call port_dir,$(REP_DIR)/ports/e2fsprogs)
@@ -5,7 +7,7 @@ PORT_DIR := $(call port_dir,$(REP_DIR)/ports/e2fsprogs)
 src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs:
 	mkdir -p $@
 	cp -a $(PORT_DIR)/src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs/* $@
-	cp -a  $(REP_DIR)/src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs/* $@
+	cp -a $(addprefix $(REP_DIR)/,$(E2FSPROGS_SRC)) $@
 
 LICENSE:
 	cp $(PORT_DIR)/src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs/COPYING $@
diff --git a/repos/ports/src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs-minimal/target.mk b/repos/ports/src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs-minimal/target.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ac4e5dd65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/ports/src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs-minimal/target.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+BINARIES := fsck.ext2 mkfs.ext2
+
+INSTALL_TAR_CONTENT := $(addprefix bin/,$(BINARIES))
+
+PKG_DIR = $(call select_from_ports,e2fsprogs)/src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs
+
+include $(REP_DIR)/src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs/target.inc
diff --git a/repos/ports/src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs/target.inc b/repos/ports/src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs/target.inc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c301a3f9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/ports/src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs/target.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+CONFIGURE_FLAGS = --disable-tls --enable-fsck
+
+# NOTE: --sbindir=/bin is broken and the easist fix is patching configure
+#       directly and therefore is not used.
+
+#
+# Needed for <sys/types.h>
+#
+CFLAGS += -D__BSD_VISIBLE
+
+include $(call select_from_repositories,mk/noux.mk)
diff --git a/repos/ports/src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs/target.mk b/repos/ports/src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs/target.mk
index c301a3f9d..310689bf0 100644
--- a/repos/ports/src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs/target.mk
+++ b/repos/ports/src/noux-pkg/e2fsprogs/target.mk
@@ -1,11 +1 @@
-CONFIGURE_FLAGS = --disable-tls --enable-fsck
-
-# NOTE: --sbindir=/bin is broken and the easist fix is patching configure
-#       directly and therefore is not used.
-
-#
-# Needed for <sys/types.h>
-#
-CFLAGS += -D__BSD_VISIBLE
-
-include $(call select_from_repositories,mk/noux.mk)
+include $(PRG_DIR)/target.inc