Why all songs won't erase during sync

I'm setting up my iPhone to erase all songs from the phone during a sync. There is still 2 GB of songs that won't be deleted from the iPhone.
What can I do?

How have you set this up?
My suggestion is if you sync using iTunes and your computer, use that opportunity to stop the synching of the music. That should delete the music on your iPhone.

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http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/classic/
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1339
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