diff --git a/src/app/rpmostree-builtin-status.c b/src/app/rpmostree-builtin-status.c
index a3b87b4d..8b478a26 100644
--- a/src/app/rpmostree-builtin-status.c
+++ b/src/app/rpmostree-builtin-status.c
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ print_one_deployment (RPMOSTreeSysroot *sysroot_proxy,
   g_autoptr(GVariant) signatures =
     g_variant_dict_lookup_value (dict, "signatures", G_VARIANT_TYPE ("av"));
 
-  if (!first)
+  if (!first && !opt_only_booted)
     g_print ("\n");
 
   g_print ("%s ", is_booted ? libsd_special_glyph (BLACK_CIRCLE) : " ");
@@ -890,7 +890,10 @@ print_deployments (RPMOSTreeSysroot *sysroot_proxy,
         booted_osname = osname;
     }
 
-  g_print ("Deployments:\n");
+  if (opt_only_booted)
+    g_print ("BootedDeployment:\n");
+  else
+    g_print ("Deployments:\n");
 
   /* just unpack this so that each iteration doesn't have to dig for it */
   const char *cached_update_deployment_id = NULL;
diff --git a/tests/vmcheck/test-misc-1.sh b/tests/vmcheck/test-misc-1.sh
index 06ad226b..e967b21a 100755
--- a/tests/vmcheck/test-misc-1.sh
+++ b/tests/vmcheck/test-misc-1.sh
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ echo "ok status doesn't require active PAM session"
 
 vm_rpmostree status -b > status.txt
 assert_streq $(grep -F -e 'ostree://' status.txt | wc -l) "1"
+assert_file_has_content status.txt BootedDeployment:
 echo "ok status -b"
 
 # Reload as root https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/issues/976