Removal of an OSD in Ceph

I have a 4 node proxmox cluster on which I setup ceph squid 19.2.0. I am just setting things up so I only have proxmox and ceph running on the nodes so far. I created an osd on each of nodes 1, 2, and 3 and ceph was reporting health OK. I did not go any further so there are no pools created. Only the ceph monitors, manager and osd's. Before I go further I wish to change the harddrive on node 2 so I started the process of removing the osd. I used this series of commands:

Before I started...

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