diff --git a/makechrootpkg.in b/makechrootpkg.in
index 1e46c6ee66f5db46bb0078cf5c4811c9e4aeadac..a8a71ec984b94541414df1182f335e0d3acdf7e6 100644
--- a/makechrootpkg.in
+++ b/makechrootpkg.in
@@ -115,9 +115,10 @@ sync_chroot() {
 	if true; then # indent for rebasing/merging purposes
 		# Get a read lock on the root chroot to make
 		# sure we don't clone a half-updated chroot
-		slock 8 "$chrootdir/root.lock" "Locking clean chroot"
+		slock 8 "$chrootdir/root.lock" \
+			"Locking clean chroot [%s]" "$chrootdir/root"
 
-		stat_busy "Creating clean working copy [%s]" "$copy"
+		stat_busy "Synchronizing chroot copy [%s] -> [%s]" "$chrootdir/root" "$copydir"
 		if is_btrfs "$chrootdir" && ! mountpoint -q "$copydir"; then
 			subvolume_delete_recursive "$copydir" ||
 				die "Unable to delete subvolume %s" "$copydir"
@@ -142,7 +143,7 @@ delete_chroot() {
 	local copydir=$1
 	local copy=${1:-$2}
 
-	stat_busy "Removing temporary copy [%s]" "$copy"
+	stat_busy "Removing chroot copy [%s]" "$copy"
 	if is_btrfs "$chrootdir" && ! mountpoint -q "$copydir"; then
 		btrfs subvolume delete "$copydir" >/dev/null ||
 			die "Unable to delete subvolume %s" "$copydir"