diff --git a/lib/cli.py b/lib/cli.py
index 776c42a44f745356f7ee952c1f9715c53fa35a1a..ce3ef3e63050ebcee85fbc1d638b45a340371291 100644
--- a/lib/cli.py
+++ b/lib/cli.py
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ from optparse import (OptionParser, TitledHelpFormatter,
 __all__ = [
   # Command line options
   "BACKEND_OPT",
+  "CLEANUP_OPT",
   "CONFIRM_OPT",
   "DEBUG_OPT",
   "DEBUG_SIMERR_OPT",
@@ -602,6 +603,15 @@ SHOWCMD_OPT = cli_option("--show-cmd", dest="show_command",
                          action="store_true", default=False,
                          help="Show command instead of executing it")
 
+CLEANUP_OPT = cli_option("--cleanup", dest="cleanup",
+                         default=False, action="store_true",
+                         help="Instead of performing the migration, try to"
+                         " recover from a failed cleanup. This is safe"
+                         " to run even if the instance is healthy, but it"
+                         " will create extra replication traffic and "
+                         " disrupt briefly the replication (like during the"
+                         " migration")
+
 
 def _ParseArgs(argv, commands, aliases):
   """Parser for the command line arguments.
diff --git a/scripts/gnt-instance b/scripts/gnt-instance
index 3c1a8a0aeb178e034c5d791a97560591d123b177..e67504e951d8685d0800ef20390577caa3de9e06 100755
--- a/scripts/gnt-instance
+++ b/scripts/gnt-instance
@@ -1394,16 +1394,7 @@ commands = {
                "Stops the instance and starts it on the backup node, using"
                " the remote mirror (only for instances of type drbd)"),
   'migrate': (MigrateInstance, ARGS_ONE_INSTANCE,
-               [DEBUG_OPT, FORCE_OPT, NONLIVE_OPT,
-                cli_option("--cleanup", dest="cleanup",
-                           default=False, action="store_true",
-                           help="Instead of performing the migration, try to"
-                           " recover from a failed cleanup. This is safe"
-                           " to run even if the instance is healthy, but it"
-                           " will create extra replication traffic and "
-                           " disrupt briefly the replication (like during the"
-                           " migration"),
-                ],
+               [DEBUG_OPT, FORCE_OPT, NONLIVE_OPT, CLEANUP_OPT],
                "[-f] <instance>",
                "Migrate instance to its secondary node"
                " (only for instances of type drbd)"),