Suddenly have a lot of free space?

I just synced my iphone to itunes, and all of the sudden I have nearly 5gb of free space! Up until recently, my phone was always on the verge of being full and the bar at the bottom of itunes confirmed that it was all music, photos, etc. only the tiniest bit was marked "other". I have only deleted just a few things recently, but definitely not 5gb worth! I would know. that's a lot of stuff-- I'd really have to work at it to find 5gb worth of music, etc, that I'd be willing to delete from itunes.
Also, I have synced my phone many times in the past year, and itunes always indicated that my phone was nearly full. The only thing I did differently with today's sync was to tell it to manually backup my phone onto my computer. Then I backed up my downloaded podcasts.
At a glance, it seems like all photos, podcasts, videos, music, etc are still on my phone. so why is so much space freed up all of the sudden? is it possible my phone full of corrupted data and this particular backup and sync suddenly cleared it?

I haven't recently deleted any apps. In fact, this sync accidentally restored a couple of apps that I had deleted from my iphone. They were really small.
I guess it's just a glitch! I wanted to see if this had happened to anyone else. it makes me angry because:
A: now I'm nervous that something is missing and I'll figure it out way later when it's too late.
B: for the last few months, I slaved over deleting things in order to keep my phone freed up. I thought I was putting too much music, etc on it and it turns out I might have had tons of free space and didn't know it.

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Mainefrye, welcome to the forum,
this / similar has been experienced by several members, searching for "drive space" without the "" should bring results. Here's an example with a possible solution.
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http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT4946
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